342 On new Central Australian Birds. 



TURNIX LEUCOGASTER, Sp. n. 



Adult female. General colour above chestnut-brown^ each 

 feather being more or less broadly margined with buffy 

 white ; bases of the feathers on the top of the head black, 

 their inner webs whitish, forming a conspicuous stripe down 

 the centre of the head ; nape and hind-neck pale chestnut- 

 brown, each feather being submarginally edged on either 

 side with a narrow line of black ; scapulars, back, rump, and 

 upper tail-coverts and tail more distinctly lined with black, 

 and having three or more irregularly shaped cross-bars on 

 each feather, the scapulars being broadly margined with 

 buffy white and having a spot of ochraceous brown near the 

 tips ; primaries, secondaries, and primary-coverts blackish 

 grey ; outer web of the first primary and edge of the wing 

 white, the remainder narrowly edged with buff, also the tips 

 of outer webs of secondaries and inner webs and tips of 

 primary-coverts ; tertiaries like the scapulars, but having 

 three irregularly shaped white spots on the outer webs of the 

 two longest feathers ; remainder of the wing-coverts light 

 red, broadly edged with pale buff and marbled with black 

 near their tips, the lesser coverts slightly duller and more 

 broadly tipped with black ; lores and superciliary stripes 

 white tipped with pale chestnut; feathers below the eye, 

 sides of the face and neck, white with blackish tips ; chin 

 and throat white ; fore-neck pale buff; sides of the chest 

 dull chestnut-red, tipped with pale buff, and gradually be- 

 coming darker on the sides of the breast, where the feathers 

 are submarginally edged with black near their tips ; re- 

 mainder of the under surface and under tail-coverts dull 

 white : bill bluish liorn-colour ; legs and feet yellowish 

 white. Total length 5-2 inches, wing 2-9, tail 1-3, bill 0*47, 

 tarsus 0"7. 



Hab. Davenport Creek, Central Australia. 



This new species of Turnix is allied to T. velox and to 

 T. pyrrhotliorax, but the almost uniform white under-surface 

 will serve to distinguish it from either, and from every 

 member of the genus yet discovered in Australia. 



